Digital BW, The Print

Having owned just about every Epson printer since the original Stylus in 
1994, I'm still amazed at how good these things are and how fast they got here.

I think the UC printers have slowed things down in the color world a bit, 
showing more of a refinement rather than a breakthough.

The world of monchrome printing continues to evolve rapidly thanks to the 
pioneers on the board (you know who you are).

Still all this tweaking still rides on the shirt tails of Epson hardware 
evolution...............so?

Since the incredible R800 color machine is the first one to use GLOP, woudn't 
it make sense to use it as a platform for doing monochrome glop? Since the 
porportional laydown is in the driver already and MIS makes "refill friendly" 
type cartridges, it seems like a most logical progression to make that the 
platform of choice for development as the ultimate monochrome printer for BOTH 
matte and glossy worlds of B&W.

The only guys that would get left behind in the process are the BO guys, but 
there are other affordable platforms for that.

I have owned/still own almost all PRO printers from Epson including the 9500, 
7500, 7600, 4000, etc. and the R800's color output and SEED makes all the 
rest look bad in comparison for only $399. I'm confident they will announce the 
13" version at PMA this year since it has been sighted in Japan for a while 
now, so it may be time to put those 1280's and 2200's on Ebay or just squirt lots 
prints until the heads die off, so you have an excuse to invest another $700 
into the next generation.

Claude


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